Automobile-radiator-repair device



mamm July 17, 3923.

M. ANCHELEVEQH AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR REPAIR DEVICE Filed July 26, 1921 OOOOOCOCOOO 00000000000 0000m000000 0000Qo00000 00000000000 00000000000 OOOOOOOOOOO OOODOOOOOOO 00000000000 00000000000 'INVENTOR.

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Patented July 17, 1923.

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MAX ANCI-IELEVICH, 0F. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

AUTO1VIOBILE-RAIDIATOR-REPAIR DEVICE.

Application filed July 26, 1921. Serial No. 487,808.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX ANoHnnEvIoH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Automobile-Radiator-Repair Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automobile radiator repair devices for radiators of the honeycomb type.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and efiicient means for repairing a radiator leak without necessitating the removal of the radiator from the car.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which when applied will effectively close the leak, and may be allowed to remain indefinitely, or it may be removed and a tube substituted therefor and permanently connected with the radiator.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown, described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a portion of a honeycomb radiator with this improved repair device shown applied.

Fig. 2 is anenlarged detail horizontal section of the radiator with the device shown in operative position, said device being in section.

It is of course well known that honeycomb radiators consist of a chamber usually of relatively small thickness, containing front and rear parallel walls, through which are formed a multitude of passages, through which the cooling air passes. In radiators of this character the liquid circulates about these tubular passages and the air passes through them. When a leak occurs in a radiator of this character, water will run out of the radiator and the circulation of the engine will be destroyed, and the engine will become overheated, and if it is continued to be run without the water cooling system being in operation trouble will result.

In the embodiment illustrated a radiator R is shown, having the usual air passages or tubes T, through which air is designed to pass and around which circulates the water of the cooling system. Should a leak occur in one of these tubes, the water in the casing will flow out therethrough and as above set forth it will cause serious trouble unless repaired.

The repair device constituting this invention as shown in Fig. 2, comprises two oppositely extending inter-end engaging tube closure sections 1 and 2 for insertion in one of the tubes '1, one of said sections telescoping with the other and each including a shank provided at its outer end with a head 3, of materially greater diameter than the shank and preferably rounded on its outer face and provided with a screw driver receiving kerf, while its inner face is made flat'andstraight to adapt it to fit close against the end of the tube to be repaired. The section 2'has extending inwardly from the head 3 thereof an internally threaded tapering shank or stem 4: formed with a tapering socket having a threaded wall, while the head 3 of the other section has a solid externally threaded tapering shank 5 extendingtherefrom and adapted to enter the socket of the shank 4.- so that when these two sections are placed at opposite ends of a tube T and screwed into locking engagement with each other, the inner faces of the heads 3 thereof will be forced flat against the end of the tube, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, while the body of the device will contact closely with the walls of the tube, and thereby close any leaks which may be in the tube. When these sections are secured as above described, they may be allowed to remain indefinitely, or, if desired they may be removed and a tubular member inserted and soldered to the radiator walls thus permanently closing the leak, and yet providing a passage for the air.

From the above description, it will be obvious, that the repair device herein shown and described may be applied to a radiator on the car, without necessitating its removal, a leaking tube having been first located by any suitable means, or a radiator which has been removed may be equally well repaired thereby.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed in the drawings and set forth in the specification, but it will be un- I derstood that any modifications within the scope of the claimed invention may be made in the construction without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

What I claim is:

1. A leak repair device for automobile radiators of the honeycomb type comprising a pair of oppositely extending telescopic and threadably engaging tapering tubular closure elements for insertion through opposite ends of a radiator tube and adjustable-towards and away from each stituting a closure tor one end engaging adjustable tapering tubular closure elements for insertion through opposite endsof a radiator tube and adjustable towards and away from eachother, said elements having their outer ends provided with integral means for closing the ends'of the tubes and each oi said elements of less length than the length of the tubes, and said elements having inherent means for securing them in engaged position for closing the ends of the tubes.

3. A leak repair device for automobile radiators or the honeycomb type including cal and a. tapering portion, the tapering portion being peripherally threaded, and the cylindrical portion having its free end formed with a head of greater diameter than the diameter of the radiator tube, and

the other of said elements including a shank formed with a cylindrical portion and a tapering portion and with the outer end of the cylindrical portion provided with a head of greaterdiameter' than the radiator tube, the shankof the last mentioned element formed with tapering socket having the wall thereof threaded for engage ment therewith of the peripherally threaded tapering portion of the other shank where.- by said elements when adiustably connected together constitute closures for the ends of the tube in which they are inserted.

in testimony whereof, I ,aifix my signa-, ture hereto.

MAX ANCHELEVICH. 

